The Tapestry

Zusatztext "Nancy Bilyeau’s The Tapestry continues herexcellent incursion into the turbulent and high-stakes world of the TudorReformation in England. It was a time when principle and faith had to do battlewith arbitrary power and personal fear to keep surviving. The narrative voicedraws us into the story from the first page and drives us forward to the end.What is most striking about the book is how it cleverly intertwines the historyand political intrigue in the court of Henry VIII with an account of an intenselypersonal drama and romance. A vividstory! well and clearly told! which will be enjoyable for a wide variety ofreaders." Informationen zum Autor Nancy Bilyeau, author of  The Crown  and The Chalice , is a writer and magazine editor who has worked on the staffs of  InStyle ,  Rolling Stone , Entertainment Weekly , and  Good Housekeeping . She is currently the executive editor of Du Jour magazine. A native of the Midwest, she lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Visit her website at NancyBilyeau.com. Klappentext The next in the award-winning series takes place in the Tudor court, as a gutsy former novice risks everything to defy the most powerful men.The Tapestry 1 I was once told that whenever I felt suspicious of someone’s intent, no matter how faintly, I should trust that instinct, but since the man who issued this advice had himself tried to kill me, and nearly succeeded, it was difficult to know how much weight to give his words. I felt this distrust in a place where all others seemed at ease, as I followed a page through the tall, gleaming rooms of the Palace of Whitehall, filled with the most prosperous subjects of King Henry VIII. To anyone else, it would seem the safest place in all of England. But not to me. Never to me. Only eight days earlier I’d received the summons, calling me back to London, the city where I had seen much cruelty and death. I read it in my small house on the High Street of Dartford, where I had come to serve as a novice at its priory of Dominican sisters and hoped and prayed to prove my worthiness to take vows and become a Bride of Christ. But, two years ago, by the king’s command, our exquisite priory was torn down, and I was cast out with the others. “This missive is from the king’s council, Sister Joanna,” said Gregory, pushing it into my hands as if it were a loaf pulled fresh from the oven that was singeing his fingertips. Gregory was a clerk in the town. He married the vintner’s daughter just after Candlemas Day, and his face soon thickened, like a hunting dog turns fat and sleek when brought into the house at season’s end. But Gregory, no matter his station now, once served as porter to our priory and continued to take an interest in my welfare. He still called me Sister. When a letter came to town bearing the royal seal, Gregory insisted on delivering it to me. I thanked him and closed the door on the bright noise of the High Street. My fingers heavy with dread, I found a knife to break the beeswax seal. It was light brown, with these words circling the figure of a man on horseback, holding sword and shield: “Henry the Eighth, by the grace of God, of England and France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and on Earth, of the English and Irish Church, Supreme Head.” I smoothed the sheet of thick, creamy vellum onto my table. “Touching on the matter of the commission of tapestry, Mistress Joanna Stafford, daughter of Sir Richard Stafford, is hereby summoned to the Palace of Whitehall, in the third week of April in the Year of Our Lord 1540, to wait upon the Keeper of the G...

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• Autori: Nancy Bilyeau
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.03.2015, ritardato
• EAN: 9781476756370
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-5637-0
• Pagine: 384
• Serie: Joanna Stafford; Joanna Stafford series; Joanna Stafford series; Joanna Stafford
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi